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BEIJING: China on Friday accused Japan's new defence minister of recklessly misrepresenting history after she declined to say whether Japanese troops massacred civilians in China during World War Two. Tomomi Inada, a 57-year old lawmaker known for her...

We begin today’s collection of headlines from the worlds of spooks and “security” with European Edward Snowden blowback by way of SecurityWeek: Germany to Beef Up Spy Defenses Against Allies: Report Germany plans to beef up its counterintelligence...

The governor of Japan’s Okinawa on Friday approved a controversial plan to relocate a U.S. air base to a less populous part of the southern island, but said he would keep pressing to move the base off the island altogether. The nod from Okinawa...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is set to clarify the ownership of 280 remote islands in its territorial waters and register them as national assets, a move that could rile China and South Korea, which are engaged in territorial disputes with Tokyo. Japan's...

China's Foreign Minister warned Japan's ambassador to China on Thursday that Japan must bear the "full responsibility for the serious political consequences" of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision to visit Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for the war...